Platero and I/Platero y yo: A Dual-Language Book
The most popular work by the great Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958), this is a series of autobiographical prose poems about the wanderings in Andalusia of a poet and his donkey. This new, accurate English translation is drawn from the 1917 edition. This is the only dual-language...
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The most popular work by the great Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958), this is a series of autobiographical prose poems about the wanderings in Andalusia of a poet and his donkey. This new, accurate English translation is drawn from the 1917 edition. This is the only dual-language edition available. Introduction, Explanatory Notes.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486435657 (0486435652)
ASIN: 486435652
Publish date: June 4th 2004
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Modern,
Poetry,
Short Stories,
Spanish Literature,
Nobel Prize,
Spain
A poet (Juan Ramón Jiménez), a donkey (Platero), a town in the Spanish countryside (Moguer). The author wanders with Platero, eating figs and quinces from the trees, resting in the shade, observing the animals and the people (mostly poor and ragged), and finding beauty everywhere. He describes what ...
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